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Bed Bath & Beyond pull Radioactive Metal Tissue Boxes Off Shelves
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1880562:MV8xNzUzMTAzXzI5MDY3MjA1XzcwMEVGODhF] [quote:Childoflight 1557725:MV8xNzUzMTAzXzI5MDY2NzM1X0U1NTQwRUMz] Often when old radiotherapy machines in 3rd world countries are taken out of service they are sold for scrap metal !Everything including the small highly radioactive cobalt 60 source gets melted down so tge whole mess becomes radioactive.It is then recycled into metal objects.In the late 1970's most of our cobalt 60 machines were replaced by linear accelerators and were sold or given to the third world.......ever since there have been sporadic problems....Radioactive furniture from Mexico is one example that comes to mind......I will bet there is a whole lot more tissue boxes around though!One more reason to own your own Griger counter! [/quote] oh yes [i]"...AN AGEING, lead-lined machine was taken last year from the rooms of a retired professor at Delhi University and sold as scrap. The device was actually a gamma irradiation machine, used in experiments by chemistry students, and contained radioactive Cobalt-60. Pulled apart by a scrap metal dealer, it unleashed a massive and deadly dose of radiation, killing one person and sending another six to hospital. The accident was deeply embarrassing for the Indian government - experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency described it (pre-Fukushima) as the ''most serious global instance of radiation exposure since 2006''. Advertisement: Story continues below But the incident was thoroughly investigated by India's top nuclear safety authority, the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, which oversaw the clean-up and search for other radioactive material inadvertently sold...."[/i] http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/fear-over-indias-nuclear-embrace-20111222-1p74l.html [/quote]
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Health officials said they've removed a dozen metal box tissue holders containing small amounts of radioactive material from four Bed, Bath and Beyond stores in New York.
The level of radiation exposure from holding the tissue box against the body for one hour would be equivalent to a chest X-ray, said state health officials.
...contain low levels of Cobalt-60.
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